Information and Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Information and Democracy write by Stuart N. Soroka. This book was released on 2022-02-03. Information and Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A large-scale empirical investigation into the frequency and accuracy of media coverage of public policy.
Information, Democracy, and Autocracy
Information, Democracy, and Autocracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Information, Democracy, and Autocracy write by James R. Hollyer. This book was released on 2018-09-27. Information, Democracy, and Autocracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Advocates for economic development often call for greater transparency. But what does transparency really mean? What are its consequences? This breakthrough book demonstrates how information impacts major political phenomena, including mass protest, the survival of dictatorships, democratic stability, as well as economic performance. The book introduces a new measure of a specific facet of transparency: the dissemination of economic data. Analysis shows that democracies make economic data more available than do similarly developed autocracies. Transparency attracts investment and makes democracies more resilient to breakdown. But transparency has a dubious consequence under autocracy: political instability. Mass-unrest becomes more likely, and transparency can facilitate democratic transition - but most often a new despotic regime displaces the old. Autocratic leaders may also turn these threats to their advantage, using the risk of mass-unrest that transparency portends to unify the ruling elite. Policy-makers must recognize the trade-offs transparency entails.
Degrees of Democracy
Degrees of Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Degrees of Democracy write by Stuart N. Soroka. This book was released on 2010. Degrees of Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book develops and tests a 'thermostatic' model of public opinion and policy and examines both responsiveness and representation across a range of policy domains in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, concluding that representative democratic government functions surprisingly well.
Social Media and Democracy
Social Media and Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Media and Democracy write by Nathaniel Persily. This book was released on 2020-09-03. Social Media and Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A state-of-the-art account of what we know and do not know about the effects of digital technology on democracy.
The Information Game in Democracy
The Information Game in Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Information Game in Democracy write by Dipankar Sinha. This book was released on 2018-03-07. The Information Game in Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines democracy and governance from the unconventional and largely under researched vantage point of information. It looks at the exclusionary informational dynamics in democracy and analyses the role of information capitalism, new technology, virtual networks, cyberspace and media. While emphasizing the foundational value of information as the ‘source code’ of modern societies the book explains how it is strategically maneuvered in technologies of governance in so-called established and credible democracies. It studies the neutralization and subversion as well as the complex, nuanced and multidimensional act of othering of people, who are supposed to be the repository of power in democracy and in whose interest the business of governance is expected to be conducted. The work highlights the challenges of technocratic interpretations, stunted public policy communication, hyped information society, cooption through the state-of-the-art capitalism, rhetoric of virtual networks and the often-unilateral agenda of mainstream media. A major intervention in understanding the nature of contemporary democracy and polity, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics, media, political communication and technology studies.
